Treo 650 four types of resets

Soft Reset Treo 650

Soft reset are a kind of general purpose reset, like rebooting a pc. This turns your device off, clears out anything that might be hung, and starts it up again. It is a soft reset you experience when your treo suddenly turns itself off and automatically restarts. Some applications cause a soft reset after installation. Some just restart, and some let you know they need to restart, please tap the button.

A soft reset can be performed by simply removing the back cover and letting the battery lost contact for a moment. If this fails to reset your Treo 650, you can poke a paperclip into the reset hole . Several utilities also offer a soft reset feature formthe software including ZLauncher and Initiate.

Warm Reset Treo 650

A warm reset us used when something is causing your Treo to act funny. you can sometimes use it to avoid that endless loop Thingie ("TELT"). A warm reset is like going into safemode on your pc.

To perform a warm reset, initiate a reset (via software, or removing the back cover), and hold the up arrow on the 5-way navigation pad as the Treo turns back on. When the Palm screen shows, let go and allow to to contiune starting. at this point you can remove the software causing you problems if you know what it is.

Hard Reset Treo 650

When all else fails!!! A hard reset will erase evrything you hav on your Treo (excluding what's on the ROM, or what you have on your SD card). Do this only as a last resort and ensure that you have BACKED UP your data beforehand.

To perform a hard reset, start your reset in any of the way mentioned above. This time press and hold down the red phjone button until the palm screen appears. Then the Palm screen appears, let go of the red phone button. You will then be prompted to pressup to erase all data, or down to abort. you will want to press the UP to complete the hard reset. Your phone will reboot and take you through the screen calibration process.

Zero-Out Reset Treo 650

A zerro-out reset will regress a device that has non-volatile memory to its factory-fresh state. When done correctly, it completely rewrites your device's internal memory with zeros and ones, ensuring that any data is expunged. It should be used used only if you want all information completely obliterated (example: you're selling your handheld, or you're sending in for repair, and want to protect your privacy).

1. Read through these instructions before attempting the reset. Palm made this method of zero-out reset extremely awkard to perform, so that it would happen by accident. you may need the help of a dextrous friend if you find it too diffcult to do by yourself.
2. Connect your device to its hotsync cable or cardle. The HotSync cable does not need to be connected to your pc, and does not need to be connected to power.
3. Press and hold the Power button and UP on the 5-way navigator.
4. While continuing to hold Power and UP, press and hold the HotSync button on the HotSync cable or cradle. As you press HotSync, make sure your other finger doesn't slide to the LEFT or RIGHT on the 5-way navigator; it needs to be exactly on the UP during the entire process. Although you are pressing the HotSync button, a HotSync should not begin.
5. While continuing to hold Power, UP and Hotsync, press and release the RESET button on the back of your device. This is very diffcult to do with only one person; you may wish to hold the stylus on your mouth and use your hands to press Power UP and Hotsync.
6. Release Power UP and HotSync.
7. If you did this correctly, the screen of your device will go blank, and you will not be able to turn it on. The charging LED will not light up, even if it's connected to power. It will appear to be "dead". (any other activity -- such as the Palm OS logo or a rainbow-colored Log screen appearing -- means the reset was performed incorrectly; try again)
8. Your device will appear "dead" for several minutes (up to 10 minutes). during this time, your device's internal memory is being reformatted. If your device doesen't appear "dead" for several minutes with the screen completely blank, the zero-out reset was performed incorrectly; try again.
9. After several minutes, your device will "wake up" and the palmOne and Palm Powered logo will appear as if you had performed a hard reset.Eventually, you'll be taken to a series of screens to calibrate the touchscreen and set the date and time.
10. If you want your handheld to remain in the factory state, stop here.If you want the restore data to your device, follow the steps for recovering after a hard reset (a zero-out reset is a special type of hard reset).